Also during 2022, the Town received about $937,000 from its own separate 4.9% Lodging Tax, submitted by the lodgers located within the town limits…
Author: Bill Hudson
Bill Hudson began sharing his opinions in the Pagosa Daily Post in 2004 and can't seem to break the habit. He claims that, in Pagosa Springs, opinions are like pickup trucks: everybody has one.
EDITORIAL: Tourism, at the Edge of the World, Part Four
There might be a happy ending to the continued growth of Pagosa tourism, for a select group of people…
EDITORIAL: Tourism, at the Edge of the World, Part Three
I am personally acquainted with most of the 19 business teams that signed the letter…
EDITORIAL: Tourism, at the Edge of the World, Part Two
Tourism Board executive director Jennie Green was asked to comment on the suggestions made by this group of 25 businesses…
EDITORIAL: Tourism, at the Edge of the World, Part One
When I arrived at the well-publicized ‘Halloween Hootenanny’, the scene at Yamaguchi Park seemed relatively deserted…
EDITORIAL: Bad Test Scores, Part Five
Her 4th grade class at Pagosa Peak Open School is studying Ute culture and history, as described in Emily Murphy’s illustrated Daily Post article on Wednesday…
EDITORIAL: Why I Voted ‘No’ on Prop HH
The General Assembly has the legal authority to reduce the property tax rate without a vote of the electorate, so Prop HH is not really about property tax relief…
EDITORIAL: Bad Test Scores, Part Four
Sadly, the statistics to which our schools get reduced, and on which they are ranked, are based on just two basic academic skills…
Town Council to Consider Contract with David Harris for Town Manager Position, Tonight
A nationwide recruitment was conducted and 27 applications were received for the vacant position…
EDITORIAL: Serious Questions About Colorado Housing Programs
Here are the most important things this chart is trying to tell us, based on responses from 447 working households in Archuleta County…
EDITORIAL: Bad Test Scores, Part Three
“It’s a great time in education, when almost everyone… sees the need for kids to apply their knowledge to a field that they might pursue, that doesn’t necessarily involve going to college…”
EDITORIAL: Bad Test Scores, Part Two
At some point, we have to wake up from our dream…
EDITORIAL: Bad Test Scores, Part One
I’m curious how many of our Daily Post readers — in particular, perhaps, those with college degrees — could confidently answer this question?…
EDITORIAL: My Pagosa Crystal Ball is Dark & Cloudy… Part Four
I stopped by, to get a photo of a small construction crew working on a Habitat for Humanity home on Ranger Park Drive, in the Trails subdivision…
EDITORIAL: My Pagosa Crystal Ball is Dark & Cloudy… Part Three
The Colorado Demographer’s Office has consistently overestimated population growth in Archuleta County… by a sizable margin of error…
EDITORIAL: My Pagosa Crystal Ball is Dark & Cloudy… Part Two
Will workers want a low-paying tourist industry job in Pagosa Springs, if they are required to commute from New Mexico?
EDITORIAL: My Pagosa Crystal Ball is Dark & Cloudy… Part One
I attended a meeting of the Pagosa Springs Community Development Corporation last week and heard about some ambitious plans…
EDITORIAL: Flip-Flops at the BOCC, and other Controversies, Part Four
As part of the 2008 sale of the Running Iron Ranch, the family had negotiated full use of the ranch property for cattle grazing and gravel mining for 15 years